Disturbed her?
No! she has disturbed me, night and day, through eighteen years--incessantly--remorselessly--till yesternight; and yesternight I was tranquil.

I dreamt I was sleeping the last sleep by that sleeper, with my heart stopped and my cheek frozen against hers.' 'And if she had been dissolved into earth, or worse, what would you have dreamt of then ?' I said.
'Of dissolving with her, and being more happy still!' he answered.

'Do you suppose I dread any change of that sort?
I expected such a transformation on raising the lid--but I'm better pleased that it should not commence till I share it.

Besides, unless I had received a distinct impression of her passionless features, that strange feeling would hardly have been removed.

It began oddly.